Umberto Tozzi

With his 50-year career studded with successes and awards in Italy and around the world, more than 80 million records sold and more than 2000 concerts, Umberto Tozzi continues the journey of ‘L’ultima notte rosa – The final tour’, a world tour in 4 continents, a special opportunity for audiences to enjoy the repertoire of one of the best-loved Italian artists of all time. This journey will extraordinarily see a new stop in Friuli Venezia Giulia, on Sunday 13 July (starting at 9.30 pm) in the splendid setting of Villa Manin di Codroipo (Udine). For the occasion, Tozzi, accompanied by his orchestra, will present a setlist made up of all his greatest hits, timeless songs such as ‘Ti amo’, ‘Tu’, ‘Tu’, ‘Gloria’, ‘Stella stai’, ‘Notte rosa’, ‘Si può dare di più’, ‘Gente di mare’, ‘Gli altri siamo noi’, ‘Io muoio di Te’.

A charismatic and creative songwriter and musician, Umberto Tozzi has become an icon of Italian music thanks to his timeless hits. He has crossed and thrilled entire generations, filling the world’s most important music venues with his concerts and his loyal and transversal audience. There are numerous records in terms of discographic successes that have characterised Tozzi’s artistic life, starting with ‘Ti Amo’, an unforgettable song from 1977, capable of remaining at the top of the charts for more than seven months, shattering all sales records and winning that year’s edition of Festivalbar,

has crossed every boundary with its numerous reinterpretations, even making it the centrepiece of one of the climax scenes of the successful series ‘The House of Paper 4’. It is impossible not to mention the worldwide super hit ‘Gloria’ – chosen for the soundtrack of Martin Scorsese’s film ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, but also for the cult film ‘Flashdance’ directed by Adrian Lyne – which carries Umberto Tozzi’s name overseas thanks to Laura Branigan’s interpretation of the song in 1982 and which reached number 1 in the American charts, remaining on the Billboard Hot 100 for 36 weeks.

And again ‘Si può dare di più’, ‘Gli altri siamo noi’, ‘Gente di mare’, ‘Dimmi di no’, ‘Stella Stai’, ‘Donna amante mia’, ‘Claridad’ (recorded by Luis Fonsi) and ‘Eva’, brought to success throughout Latin America by Ivete Sangalo. 1982 was the year he received the Golden Globe, an award obtained with over 27 million copies sold in just five years, and also the year he was nominated for a Grammy Award with ‘Gloria’ sung by Laura Branigan. After winning the Sanremo Festival in 1987 with ‘Si può dare di più’ together with Gianni Morandi and Enrico Ruggeri, in 1988 he came third at the Eurovision Song Contest with ‘Gente di Mare’ together with Raf. Over the years, Umberto Tozzi has collected many unforgettable collaborations with great Italian artists, such as Mogol, Dalida, Eros Ramazzotti, Gianni Morandi, the Pooh, Raf, Monica Bellucci, Enrico Ruggeri and Marco Masini and international as Anastacia, Anastacia, Francis Cabrel, Laura Branigan, Sergio Dalma, Howard Carpendale and many others.

The concert is organised by Zenit srl in collaboration with Ente Regionale per il Patrimonio Culturale del FVG, Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia – Assessorato alla Cultura, PromoTurismo FVG and Città di Codroipo

For further information:

Zenit srl tel. +39 0431 510393 – www.azalea.it – info@azalea.it

Promotion and Communication Office: Giovanni Candussio tel. +39 348 9007439 – giovanni@azalea.it